Communism Means Terrorism, Vietnamese (poster distributed in Saigon)
A Vietnamese-language color poster showing a vulture in a green cap with a red star over a skull in a pool of blood, with a hammer-and-sickle on a blood splash. The headline says that where there are communists there are terror and assassination. The tell is fear-appeal with name-calling: a carrion bird stands for communists, and violent imagery supplies the claim. Content note: skull and blood imagery.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 15, 1954
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 15, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948996, 306-PPB-124).
Text on the object
Đâu có CỘNG-SẢN là có KHỦNG-BỐ, ÁM-SÁT
Where there is Communism there is terror and assassination.
Printed 'Dâu có' in the first word, read as 'Đâu có'.
